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Nick Ospiczak has been released from his UFC contract after suffering three consecutive defeats. The latest was a decision loss to Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig at UFC 122 in Oberhausen, Germany earlier this month.

According to Evan Shoman at mixedmartialarts.com:
I just got off the phone with Gerald Harris and he has been released by the UFC.
[UPDATE] - Damon Martin (from MMAWeekly.com) tweets:
Just got the confirmation that Gerald Harris was indeed released by the UFC today. Devastated by that one. Does not make sense.
Gerald Harris was awarded two "Knockout of the Night" bonuses before his decision loss at UFC 123:
Gerald "Hurricane" Harris (17-3)
Loss Maiquel Jose Falcao Goncalves - Decision (Unanimous) UFC 123
Win Dave Branch - KO (Slam) UFC 116
Win Mario Miranda - TKO (Punches) UFC FN 21
Win John Salter - TKO (Punches) UFC FN 20

The fight that was "95 percent" certain just 10 days is now essentially a done deal. Sources close to Jorge Rivera have confirmed that verbal agreements are in place for a MIchael Bisping fight at UFC 127. Paperwork pending. Although not officially announced by the organization, UFC 127 is expected to take place Feb. 27, likely at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia. The show is expected to air on pay-per-view.

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has suffered an undisclosed injury and has withdrawn from his UFC 125 co-main event bout with Josh Grispi.
Sources close to the event notified Heavy.com of the news this afternoon.
Aldo received his new featherweight title in a private ceremony this weekend from UFC President Dana White.
UPDATE
Gross via Twitter
Hmm. Revise Aldo's "out" to the fight's in "jeopardy." Aldo just told his management he will fight regardless. I'm not so sure that happens.

The Kimbo Slicer has been officially Terminated. Again. After losing to Karlos Vemola by TKO at UFC 123, Seth Petruzelli has been released by UFC. THe loss put Petruzelli on the Losing Streak Of Doom following a 5-0 run outside UFC culminating in a TKO win over Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson in October 2008.

The situation started ugly and only got worse. As the day went on slurs flew along with hard words. It ended with the UFC's iconic announcer Joe Rogan claiming credit for getting Fighter's Only writer Tomas Rios fired from one of the industry's leading magazines and using a homophobic slur to describe the reporter.
It all began, believe it or not, with an obscure kick popularized by Brazilian K-1 star Francisco Fihlo. The so-called "Brazilian kick" was employed in the Tyson Griffin-Nik Lentz fight at UFC 123. Rogan, a former taekwondo standout, called the kick a "question mark kick" and Rios, an acerbic and aggressive journalist took him to task on twitter:

While the pending merger between the UFC and WEC has been largely applauded by MMA pundits and fans, there are likely a few Zuffa-contracted fighters who are concerned about their fighting futures.
After all, with more athletes under contract than fights available to book, the new-look UFC will be forced to let go of a substantial amount of fighters in the new year.
UFC president Dana White said it's an unfortunate reality of the fight game, but it's no different than any other professional sport. Besides, perform well and White said you'll have nothing to fear.
"These are the big-leagues, man," White said. "It's no different than Major League Baseball, no different than the NFL. You perform, or you go away."

I was forced to watch the entire first round of Gerald Harris vs. Maiquel Falcao because my illegal stream of UFC 123 did not have any sound. That's a joke ZUFFA. No need to get your ravenous attorneys on me, again. If you have completely no concept of how to utilize social media, then you're probably not aware of the current debate of the first round of Gerald Harris vs. Maiquel Falcao. The argument was that the bell rung roughly around five seconds too early to denote the end of the round, a round that in which Falcao seemed to have Harris in a very tight submission. Now a few Brazilians have actually timed the entire first round with a stopwatch and the round didn't end five seconds early, it was nearly seven seconds.

If there was anyone more shocked that Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, himself, after the light heavyweight was awarded a split-decision win over Lyoto Machida, it may have been Ed Soares.
Machida's manager, Soares firmly believes his client had done enough in the first and third round to claim victory in this past Saturday's UFC 123 main event.
Soares was so convinced that the fight was scored incorrectly that he clearly could be seen on the evening's pay-per-view broadcast telling Jackson in no uncertain terms that he thought the wrong fighter's hand was raised.
Despite the brief exchange, Soares said there's no hard feelings between him and Jackson. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

In this age of litigation, it’s become commonplace for tight personal and professional relationships to end in lawsuits. Unfortunately, the world of MMA may not be immune to this epidemic.
Last Sunday, Wanderlei Silva's official Twitter account stated that his former personal trainer and close friend, Rafael Alejarra, is suing the former Pride ace over a business matter. Silva's verified account displayed two messages to its followers concerning the situation.
“I got a citation from the labor court of law of Porto Alegre. Who might have filed a labor suit against me in Porto Alegre?” said Silva's Twitter account in Portuguese.
Stated Silva's Twitter in another post: “I only had a physical trainer who I fed, housed and gave a car plus $4000 a month, working or not. How people are, huh? It was him.”

Count New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez among those impressed with UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar.
Edgar, who defeated B.J. Penn twice in the span of four months, provided a rousing pre-game speech prior to New York’s improbable come-from-behind victory over the Houston Texans on Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J. The Jets blew a 16-point second half lead and found themselves behind 27-23 with less than a minute left, needing a game-winning drive to stave off an embarrassing defeat.
Sanchez -- who threw for 315 yards and three touchdowns -- drove the Jets down the field and hit Santonio Holmes with a six-yard touchdown pass with 10 seconds to go for the victory. He credited Edgar for some timely inspiration.
“The guy is barely taller than this podium, and this guy beat B.J. Penn in a UFC championship bout,” Sanchez said in a release. “Everybody counted him out. They wanted a rematch, and he went back and beat him even worse. Talk about a guy who is mentally tough and physically tough. He came in and spoke to the team [Saturday] night. It was a perfect time.”

The two losses stick out on Matt Hughes' resume. They stick out like a dead deer strapped to the trunk of a Chrysler Sebring. Yet, neither UFC president Dana White nor Hughes seem especially interested in enacting revenge on the UFC Hall of Famer's two early-career losses to Dennis Hallman. Following a UFC 123 defeat for Hughes and another win for Hallman, White said the company currently isn't interested in booking a third fight between the welterweights – a potential fight that long has piqued the interest of longtime fans. But with his loss to Penn and no immediate plans to retire, what's next for Hughes? "I don't know," White said. "I need to talk to Matt and see what he's thinking." And on Hughes ever talking to White about fighting Hallman again..."No. Nope."

Dana White, aka Dan Miragliotta Fan Club Member #1, sure thinks so, in his latest f-bomb-laden rant. "Dan Miragliotta is a super nice guy, but you don't just let two guys stare at each other. You start warning, ‘Fight!’, and then you start taking away points. The referee is in there for the safety of the fighters to enforce the rules and regulations. And one of the rules and regulations is when guys aren't fighting you make them f*cking fight. If they don't fight, you take points away. Those are the rules. These referees and judges got to start reading the f*cking rule books man. They really do. They're killing this thing." In particular White is referring to Miguel Jose Falcao Goncalves vs. Gerald Harris.

The Michigan Unarmed Combat Commission has announced the medical suspensions from Saturday's UFC 123 event. Only 5 fighters are suspended-Karo Parisyan & TJ O'Brien 30 days each & Matt Hughes for 60 days-but one that could impact future UFC plans is George Sotiropoulos. Dana White already confirmed George would next fight at UFC 127 in February but George is indefinitely suspended due to taking the dreaded "eye poke of doom" from Joe Lauzon and must be cleared by a physician to return. Mike Lullo is also on indefinte suspension and must have his knee & thigh cleared and also must sit out 30 days.

As the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting prepare to merge in January, parent company Zuffa is making plans to expand the visibility of the world’s largest mixed martial arts promotion in the New Year. Following Saturday’s UFC 123 in Auburn Hills, Mich., UFC president Dana White made mention of a pair of pending television agreements which he says would double the UFC’s current reach. “We’re working on two deals right now, in the next few months, that I’m very confident we’ll get done. We’ll be in over a billion homes worldwide on television,” White offered during the post-fight news conference when asked if he felt the UFC’s popularity could rival that of World Wrestling Entertainment in its prime. “What does that mean for the sport in the next three years, let alone five or ten?”
“A lot of people don’t realize, right now, we’re in a half a billion homes worldwide. We’re in 175 different countries. We’re pretty big right now. I envision it being much bigger,” said White. “I think we’re gonna be bigger than everything.” The countries and companies involved in the potential deals were not specified. Dana alsos aid UFC plans on doing "around 30, 31 fights next year". That would be down from 2010, which has a total of 32 events on the schedule.

It appears as though Karo Parisyan (Pictured) will not see the inside of the Octagon again anytime soon.
Following a first-round technical knockout loss to Dennis Hallman at UFC 123 on Saturday in Auburn Hills, Mich., UFC president Dana White told reporters Parisyan would “have to figure out the next chapter of his life” and implied that the judo convert had run out of chances with the promotion.
In an interview with MMAFighting.com, White said in no uncertain terms that he feels Parisyan “can’t perform [in the UFC] anymore” and agreed when asked if Parisyan was “done.”

No [when asked if a rematch was in store for Jackson and Machida]. As far as I’m concerned, and as far as the judges are concerned, Rampage won the fight.... [Machida] put on that burst [in the third round] where he landed five or six punches but there was no knockdown. You don’t win a fight by landing five or six punches. It’s a three round fight. You win two of the rounds, then you’re the winner.... Rampage fought a brilliant fight tonight. I loved the way that every time Machida would throw a leg kick — here’s the thing, if Rampage fights the way he usually does and Machida keeps throwing those leg kicks, Rampage wouldn’t have been able to walk after the second round. But every time Machida would throw that leg kick, Rampage would come forward and fire. When they would clinch, Rampage would do damage the entire time. I thought he fought a brilliant fight and the type of fight he had to against Machida.

Although he has gone from top contender to 3 losses in a row, including last night at UFC 123, Dana White says Tyson Griffin will not be cut. White knows MMA judging has its problems and continually cautions fighters not to leave their fate in the officials' hands, but he's adamant Griffin got a raw deal. "Tyson Griffin got [expletive] big time tonight," White said. The bout was far from a barnburner, and both fighters continually stalled working for takedowns. But Griffin appeared the aggressor despite the judges' 29-28, 27-30 and 29-28 scores in his opponent's favor (his opponent being Nik Lentz). Prior to his recent three-fight skid, which also include a split-decision defeat to top contender Evan Dunham and a flash knockout to Takanori Gomi, Griffin went 7-2 in his first nine UFC fights and picked up five "Fight of the Night" bonuses and a "Submission of the Night" award.

Meet Jose Aldo, the UFC's first-ever featherweight champion. The 24-year-old Brazilian, who closed out his WEC run with two successful defenses of that promotion's 145-pound belt, was granted the UFC's first-ever featherweight championship when Zuffa LLC elected to merge the UFC and WEC. Today, in a ceremony held at The Palace of Auburn Hills in advance of this evening's UFC 123 event in suburban Detroit, UFC president Dana White awarded Also his belt. Aldo defends his newly issued UFC belt for the first time against top contender Josh Grispi at "UFC 125: Resolution," which takes place Jan. 1 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.